Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 71 93
Rank change year-on-year +52 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 183 51 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.19% 2.70% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.38% 2.93% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 30 29
10th Percentile £413 £487 £473
25th Percentile £463 £520 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £686 £747 £700
90th Percentile £810 £806 £735
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,738 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.53% 92.01% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,056 1,550
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +1 1 £725 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.29%) Confluence
2 8 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.46%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) SPSS
4 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.37%) Oracle Financials
3 6 (3.28%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (3.28%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (2.73%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (2.73%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (2.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (1.64%) SAP EWM
7 2 (1.09%) Loan IQ
7 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
7 2 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (1.09%) Workfront
8 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.58%) Azure
2 18 (9.84%) AWS
3 17 (9.29%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.46%) GCP
4 10 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.73%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.19%) ChatGPT
7 4 (2.19%) IaaS
7 4 (2.19%) SaaS
7 4 (2.19%) Serverless
8 3 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.64%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.64%) OCI
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.09%) PaaS
9 2 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) Firewall
2 4 (2.19%) VPN
3 3 (1.64%) DHCP
3 3 (1.64%) DNS
3 3 (1.64%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.74%) Power BI
2 7 (3.83%) Tableau
3 5 (2.73%) Metadata
3 5 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.64%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.64%) Data Vault
4 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.09%) Looker
5 2 (1.09%) MySQL
5 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Informix
6 1 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 30 (16.39%) JIRA
2 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.55%) ERwin
3 1 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (48.63%) Finance
2 77 (42.08%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (16.94%) Banking
5 15 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.01%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.37%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.83%) Legal
10 6 (3.28%) Front Office
10 6 (3.28%) Marketing
10 6 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.19%) Retail
13 3 (1.64%) Aviation
13 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) Analyst
2 29 (15.85%) Business Analyst
3 23 (12.57%) Architect
3 23 (12.57%) Senior
4 21 (11.48%) Consultant
5 20 (10.93%) Project Manager
6 19 (10.38%) Lead
7 11 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (3.83%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.83%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.28%) Oracle Consultant
10 6 (3.28%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (2.73%) Data Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) Payments Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) Payments Business Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (2.73%) Technical Leader
12 4 (2.19%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.73%) LangChain
2 4 (2.19%) LangGraph
2 4 (2.19%) REST
2 4 (2.19%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.09%) .NET
3 2 (1.09%) JSON
3 2 (1.09%) OpenID
3 2 (1.09%) SAML
4 1 (0.55%) HTML
4 1 (0.55%) HTML5
4 1 (0.55%) JDBC
4 1 (0.55%) jQuery
4 1 (0.55%) LDAP
4 1 (0.55%) Middleware
4 1 (0.55%) OAuth
4 1 (0.55%) ODBC
4 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.55%) SOAP
4 1 (0.55%) Spring
4 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.74%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.01%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.28%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.19%) PMI
6 4 (2.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.64%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.09%) Derivative
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.09%) NHS
8 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.28%) Windows
2 4 (2.19%) Linux
3 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.05%) Agile
2 38 (20.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (16.39%) Project Management
5 28 (15.30%) DevOps
6 26 (14.21%) Migration
7 25 (13.66%) Analytics
7 25 (13.66%) Risk Management
7 25 (13.66%) Workshop Facilitation
8 21 (11.48%) Roadmaps
9 20 (10.93%) Decision-Making
9 20 (10.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (10.38%) Change Management
11 18 (9.84%) Project Delivery
12 17 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (8.74%) Requirements Gathering
14 15 (8.20%) Business Analysis
14 15 (8.20%) Data Governance
14 15 (8.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.29%) SQL
2 7 (3.83%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.28%) Python
4 5 (2.73%) Java
5 2 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.09%) Korn
5 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.55%) Bicep
6 1 (0.55%) C#
6 1 (0.55%) C++
6 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.55%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.55%) R
6 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (13.11%) SC Cleared
1 24 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.38%) Degree
3 11 (6.01%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.37%) PMP
5 6 (3.28%) CBAP
6 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.19%) CISSP
8 3 (1.64%) APMG
8 3 (1.64%) CISM
8 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.09%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (1.09%) CFA
9 2 (1.09%) CISA
9 2 (1.09%) CRISC
9 2 (1.09%) ISEB
9 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) QA
2 13 (7.10%) GDPR
3 12 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (6.01%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.83%) NIST
6 6 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.28%) PMO
7 5 (2.73%) GRC
7 5 (2.73%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.64%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.64%) PSD2
8 3 (1.64%) Solvency II
9 2 (1.09%) Basel III
9 2 (1.09%) COBIT
9 2 (1.09%) ISO 8583
9 2 (1.09%) ITGC
9 2 (1.09%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.55%) GAAP
System Software
1 5 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.37%) Terraform
2 5 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.55%) Ansible
3 1 (0.55%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.29%) Oracle
2 17 (9.29%) SAP
3 9 (4.92%) Google
4 8 (4.37%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.83%) Databricks
6 4 (2.19%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.64%) Remedy
7 3 (1.64%) Workday
8 2 (1.09%) Adobe
8 2 (1.09%) Ariba
8 2 (1.09%) Charles River
8 2 (1.09%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.09%) IBM
8 2 (1.09%) Informatica
8 2 (1.09%) Talend
8 2 (1.09%) VMware
9 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian